An Echo Chamber For The Powerful!



By Stanley Collymore

You call yourselves journalists but that’s not how

I see you as and therefore don’t agree with you

in the least since the term glorified and

overpaid stenographers more readily come to

mind and is most apt description, I feel, of the vast

majority of you who work for these western,

mega-corporate outlets or their likeminded

doctrinal and amalgamated state-owned

brothers-in-arms’ organisations like

the BBC – sycophantic purveyors

of wilful misinformation as well

as a cataclysmic array of

half-truths liberally interspersed with downright lies

and malicious fabrications which are assiduously,

perniciously and persistently reworked to

convey a narrative that suits the dictated

agendas of those who imperiously

yank your chains of compliant

subservience attendant with

their comprehensive and

unrelenting control of

your avaricious

purse strings.

Get a life for God’s sake! Try and remember, if your minds

aren’t addled or permanently contaminated by ravenous

greed or irreversibly tarnished by collective stupidity,

what the Fourth Estate is actually all about, then go

out and get as far away as possible from the

cosy comfort of your office armchairs

and courageously do the job you’re

supposed to and that discerning

members of the public expect

you to. Not unconscionably languish in the stinking

sewer of ostentatious dissemblance compounded

by the cynical betrayal of those whom you

routinely con while painstakingly

pretending to be what you

patently aren’t. For I am also a journalist

and it absolutely disgusts me how you

behave, and all the more reason

therefore for me and other real

journalists like myself who

feel like I do to candidly

speak out and act to

put and end to

this insane

farce.

© Stanley V. Collymore

1 October 2013.

Footnote:

To honestly and intrepidly inform the public it purports to serve is surely one of the cardinal remits of the Fourth Estate. So why then are so many journalists unconscionably, venally and blatantly disregarding these core elements of their profession? Is this to do with incompetence, greed, laziness or even rank stupidity on their part or more aptly, as I believe, that these media charlatans aren’t really journalists at all but simply glorified and rather overpaid stenographers and therefore they and what they regurgitate should be treated with absolute caution.